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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2004 at 17:38

King Crimson > In the Court of the Crimson King.

By the way Joren, Freak Out! has a copyright date of 1965 check your copy.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 05:19
Originally posted by moonchild moonchild wrote:

King Crimson > In the Court of the Crimson King.

By the way Joren, Freak Out! has a copyright date of 1965 check your copy.

You shouldn't look at the COPYRIGHT DATE. It was indeed RECORDED in 1965, but RELEASED in 1966. No-one will hear your music if you don't release it! Almost everybody mentions the releasedate instead of the recording date. Freak Out! - 1966. It says 1966 on both the official Zappa website AND the progarchives. 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 05:25
Right you are Joren 1766

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2004 at 16:29

Originally posted by Velvetclown Velvetclown wrote:

Right you are Joren 1766

 You wouldn't make a good history teacher,

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2004 at 15:49

Some of the pionners

Zappa, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, King Crimson, Le Orme, Yes, Jetro Tull, Gong...

some great post..  

al these have recorded some LPs pre 1970,  specially Zappa..

is worth recalling that "Free Jazz" and "Fusion Jazz", in the early 60's and trough the 70's were a great influence. (coleman, coltrane, davis, wheather report...)

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2004 at 16:31
it would have to be ither pink floyd or the original nirvana
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2004 at 11:57

Personally, I think the honor goes to Lt. Uhura for "Beyond Antares"...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2004 at 14:51
From the first 2 pages, of this discussion, if Seargent Pepper's is stated; then, surprise no one mentioned this, what about the supposedly heavy influence, you have of the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" (isn't that the name), that that release has, as stated by Sir Paul McCartney???

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 31 2004 at 21:04

I haven't read all the posts.  (my bad)  If someone has already posted this band I apologize.

I would consider the first progresive rock band.

"The Pretty Things" - their LP "Emotions" laid the foundation

Next would be "The Nice", "Procol Harum, or "Soft Machine".

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2004 at 20:18

Originally posted by raleighgranprix raleighgranprix wrote:

From the first 2 pages, of this discussion, if Seargent Pepper's is stated; then, surprise no one mentioned this, what about the supposedly heavy influence, you have of the Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" (isn't that the name), that that release has, as stated by Sir Paul McCartney???

True -- but if you want to go there, Brian Wilson said he was influenced by "Rubber Soul" in creating "Pet Sounds".

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2004 at 12:55

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True -- but if you want to go there, Brian Wilson said he was influenced by "Rubber Soul" in creating "Pet Sounds".

And as mentioned, Byrds/Dylan influence on Rubber Soul:

" http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/products/?item_id=B0000 02UAO&search_type=AsinSearch&locale=us  "

A link, only to state what is widely accepted.

Not that I would  care to state these facts, it is only fair in doing so.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2004 at 07:13
Why isn't Bob Dylan first electric album counted as progressive rock  i.e. folk merged with electrified rock,  (it should have met the looser demands of the 'progressive music' definition - cf Fairport Convention or Magna Carta -  but oddly nobody seemed to even look in that direction because Mr Zimmerman might have been sacrosanct)?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2004 at 09:33

But wouldn't you have to consider the Byrds as prog first, then - since I believe that a main driving factor in Mr Z "going electric" was the fact that they (and others) were making lots of money by electrifying his songs? Simon and Garfunkel weren't far behind Dylan with the electrification of folk music either.

Maybe "8 Miles High" was not only the first identifiable work of psychedelia, but also the first identifiable work of prog?

Dylan's "electro-folk" move was also influenced by the British Invasion - the Animals ("House of the Rising Sun") and, of course, the Beatles, who already had a kind of folk/rock sound, even on "Please Please Me".

...but the Beatles aren't prog... are they...?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2004 at 12:20

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Why isn't Bob Dylan first electric album counted as progressive rock  i.e. folk merged with electrified rock,  (it should have met the looser demands of the 'progressive music' definition - cf Fairport Convention or Magna Carta -  but oddly nobody seemed to even look in that direction because Mr Zimmerman might have been sacrosanct)?

You are absolutely correct; as for Dylan, well, I don't wish to assign more importance than may be warranted, but he is starting to influence all of "rock" in that sense, a very broad influence, so where are the lines drawn?

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2004 at 13:10
I think the first progressive rock was definitely Gustav Holst's
The Planets. I mean, just look at all the brass he uses. Each of
the seven movements were inventive and original (and Mars is
in 5/4!), and Neptune is extremely... undescribable.

Everyone should keep in mind that at one point, everyone was
inspired by someone else. The statement above isn't really all
that truthful, because Holst was only composing in the 19th
Century; he was influenced perhaps by Stravinsky, who was
influenced by Prokofiev.... the list is endless. Someone out
there was influenced by classical music, and a long chain of
events led to ingenious things like prog rock and whatever you
can call Frank Zappa, and cringe-inducing things like "numetal"
and rap.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2006 at 05:01

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